I'm Mr. Meeseeks! Look at me! Hey, what you doing? Not much. Just hanging out. I'm staring at this pinball forum where people are arguing about shit that doesn't matter. Damn, dog. Check that noise. You should be where it's at. Huh? And where might that be? Poor man's pinball podcast Facebook group, silly ass. Doodle-oo! Doodle-oo! Doodle-oo! Doodle-oo! Doodle-oo! Doodle-oo! Wow. Now I'm so much more informed. My teeth are whiter and my blood pressure's lower. Yep. And your faith in humanity isn't quite as grim. Thank you, Poor Man's Pinball Podcast. Wubba lubba dub dub! Oh yeah, it's time. You've waited a week or more, and now it's finally here. The time has come for the sloppiest show on the internet. This week's episode of Poor Man's Pinball Podcast. Starring Drew and Ian. That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over. Game over. I'm gonna need someone to help me. I'm gonna need somebody's help. Son of a bitch, give me a drink. One of the nights, I just can't believe me. I'm a bitch, and I drink and breathe I'm gonna drink my way Welcome to the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast, episode 48, the sloppiest show on the internet, and the only pinball podcast that is the cure for the coronavirus. You better believe it. How's everyone out there doing? Living the dream, man. How are you? Good, good. I'm doing great, brother. I'm doing great. Well, for those out there who don't know me, I'm Drew. Oh. With me is Ian. We're introducing ourselves again. Why not? Why not? We have a guest. Let's just go right to the guest. Who's our special guest? Who are you, sir? Pete Quince. Pete Quince. Hi, fellas. How you doing? Hey, we're doing great, man. Doing good, man. We're doing good. How are you doing, sir? I am thrilled to be on the Poor Man's Pinball Podcast. Today, I am drinking a local craft beer from Seventh Son called Proliferous. Proliferous. I can't even say that. I only say that now since I've only just now cracked it. In a little bit, I will not be able to say that word. That's a messed up way to go about with your brewing, you know, naming your beers incomprehensible names. Yeah. For you guys following along at home, it's pro, how do you say that again? Proliferous. Proliferous. Proliferous. Did you say that in a sentence there, Pete? I don't think I can right now. I'm drinking a proliferous. A pluriferous amount of beer. Is that like a plurality of beer? I don't know. Drew, what are you drinking, brother? Some vanilla crown, man, on the rocks. And I am as well, because Drew bought me a bottle of crown. Two bottles. Yeah, it was a little gift set. Apple crown and vanilla crown. Yep. And maybe later we'll... I always said apple crown. I've not had it. Nor have I. We have not either. We might crack that later. Yeah, the night is young, Pete. Chop, chop, let's go. So Pete Quint is tribe member number 14, for those of you keeping score at home. I know you are. Pete, how has your life changed since becoming a tribe member? Well, now I know you guys, so I'm not sure if I'm better off for it or not. Yeah, that's not a good sign. Life is new and beautiful, and the sun is a little brighter, and the sky is a little darker at night. Yeah, it's a little different. I see the world. You're supposed to be selling this tribe thing, Pete. Not making it sound like the apocalypse. Taking my $5 back. Yeah. That was terrible. You become a tribe member, you get coronavirus. That's what happens. Too soon. Too soon. Too soon. There's a guy out there with a runny nose because of you, Drew. Shame on you. Pete, I am so glad to have you here, man. This is a hoot. I'm thrilled. I really am. All getting aside, I really enjoy the podcast. I wouldn't have made such an effort to try to be a tribe member had it not been such a wonderful show that you guys produce. That was a better shill for being a tribe member. Thank you for that. That's going out at some sort of commercial for how do you become a tribe member? And then we'll play that clip. Yeah, yeah. Kiss some butt. Pete did all five pillars beautifully. Even four and five, which are still top secret. Top secret pillars, baby. Good stuff, good stuff. So today is Dad Joke Day. Everybody's favorite day. Everybody loves Dad Joke Day. Do we have the timer set, or did you forget to do that again? No, I got it, baby. I'm on point today. Remember the last few times, it's like, oh, yeah, there's a timer somewhere. You know what? It was funny. It was because that one time I couldn't find it for the life of me, and it was bookmarked on my browser. I was like, oh, idiot. You got a phone. You could just set your phone. Pete, that's not what we do here. Pete, we do not take the easy way out on anything. Pete, if you thought I was just going to bust out my phone every time I had a problem. No, actually, you know what? This is a random timer. I don't know how to do a random timer on my phone, but this one will go off. Random intervals. I just set some time thing, and it goes polybius. What are we doing? Proliferous. Proliferous. I cannot say that word. Yeah. Don't worry. True. There will not be a test. There will not be a test. Nope. All right. Good. All right. So, Dad Joke Day, here's how it works. um we're going to set a random timer and uh we're going to take turns telling dad jokes and there is no score there's no reason at all just like our podcast and that's how we're going to play that game today folks so uh drew what else we got going on today uh well as always we got some poor man's pinball podcast personal pinball news beautiful we got uh we're going to talk a little bit about Drew getting ready for TPF, potentially. Beautiful. We're going to talk about, we got a little Dutch pinball news. We got a little spooky pinball news. Yeah. Spooky. Spooky. And we got one brand new tribe member that's going to be entering the flock, and he can be mentored by Pete Quint himself. Yeah. We're down to one now, guys. And, you know, but before we do all that, I would just like to introduce the world to Pete Quint. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself, man? Well, I'm living here in Columbus, Ohio, a proud tribe member, I suppose. I've got a small little podcast myself called the Good Beer, Bad Movie Night podcast. You can find me on all the whatever podcatchers. Pete, do you have any machines at home, pinball machines? No. You do not. Time and space, I do not have machines. However, I do have an attempt at a virtual pin that was working for about a year until I started dicking around with it. Isn't that always – I did the same thing with my Hyper Spin machine. I had this great Hyper Spin name. I saw a cool video about – was it a BAM mod? I think it's what it is. And it uses the Xbox Kinect. And it's supposed to kind of give a 3D look to your tables. and I just jacked it all up. I got so mad at it, I just put it down. We read that email on the air. I remember that. Yeah, I do. That's right. We were talking about that. Because we were talking about the cool mod and then all of a sudden we got an email, dude, not so cool. Pete, and that was way back, yeah. I'm sorry, man. That's a painful death for that VirtuaPen. Yeah, and I've missed a couple of iterations of VirtuaPen, so I'd have to download everything again and I just, it's... Everyone says that. You know, like now it's easier and easier to like set up the hardware, get it kind of ready and then the software is just such a bitch. It's rough. It's very complicated. I've been messing with it on my computer just to try to get it to work and it's just, yeah, I mean, I got some tables but it is not easy. No, no. My biggest gripe about it was like the DMD was always somewhere where it wasn't supposed to be. That's my problem. Whenever I mess with it on the computer I can never get that thing locked. There's a way to lock it, and every time I locked it, I'd start it up the next day. It would be somewhere else. I'd be like, oh, son of a – Yeah, that was my problem as well, and I couldn't figure it out. I don't know if that was the iteration or if – maybe that's been fixed in Virtual Pin 11 or 12 or whatever. Sure, sure. I mean it's a little misleading because you see all the cool pins, Virtual Pins on YouTube, and you see them, and they're set up perfectly. And you're like – Oh, they're awesome. Easy, easy peasy. How cool is it? And then, yeah, I'm sure setting up the software is just, yeah. Yeah, you can build a cabinet. You can get all the hardware. It looks beautiful. You got the haptic feedback. But then as soon as you get to that software. You know what I wanted to build was an ice cold beer virtual pen. Like it was a vertical pen. Yeah, I've seen a few of those. With the two joysticks. But the problem with that is it's not real. You know, I think ice cold beer needs to have that silver ball. Well, it's like that with everything, but it would be neat. It would be neat. But there's no rules. Like, I can see virtual pin as being something where you learn the rules on all these games you don't own. Like, you're never going to be able to get every single pinball machine except if your name is Dave Jeff Brenner. But, you know, but as far as the rest of us schmokes, yeah, like, yeah, virtual pins are a great way to access tables you would never have access to. Yeah, I'm still a big fan. Yeah, me too. I don't care what anybody says. And it's like pizza. Even bad pizza is still pretty good. I like that analogy. There's no such thing as a bad pizza. I like that. All right. Less good pizza. Awesome. All right. Do you have a – give us top three favorite pinball machines, Pete. Top three. Golly. Well, I think my number one favorite is the one I – all of a sudden the light went off and said, oh, there are rules to these things. And that was Taxi. And I played up at – oh, there was a campsite that had a little arcade. And for like four or five summers in a row, they had a heck of an operator up there. And that dude would have four new pinballs every summer. And Taxi was one of them that was there for a couple of years. Man, I played the heck out of that thing. And it was just like, wow. So it's not just slam the flippers. It's like there's stuff that you need to do. So that's probably my number one. Adam's family is always up there. It's probably my wife's favorite as well. What do you like specifically about Adam's family? I ask everyone who tells me that. What's that? Everyone who says they love Adam's family, what is it about it that you love? The call-outs are my favorite thing. It's so much fun to hear the mamushka. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. That is neat. Those call-outs are everything that should be in all pinball machines. It just brings me such great joy. along with that, who doesn't like Attack from Mars and Medieval Madness? Which one do you like better? It's a tough one, Drew. Medieval Madness or Attack from Mars. It's the same game, but which one? The castle blowing up is a little cooler than the spaceship blowing up, so I'll lean towards Medieval Madness. Guess what? There's no wrong answer in that question. Right, right. I think Theater of Magic is another one that I really enjoy because it's truly a magical pinball machine. What goes on in that, how the greatest lock in pinball with the trunk capturing the ball, that's just magic. So, yeah, Theater of Magic is another one I hold very close. I love every single one of those pins. Those are all beautiful pins. That is a good collection. If you can get your hands on those. Taxi. Taxi is underrated. It's my secret obsession. I'm still looking for a good taxi in the area. Yeah, and there's call-outs in that that just bring me great joy as well. And Marilyn Monroe says, ooh, taxi. It's like I'm talking to Marilyn Monroe right there. That's awesome. That is awesome. All right, cool. Well, today is a special day for Pete, Drew, and I because Pete's got a little bit of a charity he wants to talk about. So, Pete, if you don't mind, let's just get right into it, baby, and let's talk a little bit about what this charity is all about and the reason why I can't say the F word today. Yeah, you hamstrung us, Pete. Sorry about that. No, you're good. Yes. I'm in a band here in Columbus, Ohio called the Nacho Street Band. We're made up of employees, friends and family of Nationwide Children's Hospital. And we started this band back in 2015. And we were kind of trying to find our way. And a couple of years ago, we thought, well, let's start raising money for the hospital and the Ronald McDonald House. So we put our thinking heads together, got a hold of Project Pinball, and decided we're going to put a machine in the Ronald McDonald House of Central Ohio. So we started gigging a whole lot. We started charging more for our gigs. We got ourselves our 501c3 nonprofit status. So donations are all tax deductible. And people started giving us a little bit of money here and there. And we made – in 2019, we made over $4,000 towards our goal to put a pinball machine in the Ronald McDonald House of Central Ohio. So we are nearly at the finish line for our goal of getting this machine, of having the money to get this machine, buy it through Project Pinball and have them service it and all that good stuff. so we're having a giant fundraiser at the end of the month on the 28th of march at a place that we play kind of regularly called jnd's place in worthington ohio which is on the north side of columbus we're playing with two other bands and the whole the whole show is about raising money to get us over that goal to get a machine in the ronald mcdonald house and we need We need about $2,500 more To get that done So we're pulling out all the stops We've got, like I said, two other bands are coming in We're going to have a 50-50 We're going to have raffles We're doing a whole bunch of stuff at the bar If you don't mind Please go to our Facebook page Nacho Street Band Fans and check out all of the good stuff over there. You can also check us out at nachostreet.org. If you can't make the show and still want to support the cause, we have a donate button there. And again, we are a nonprofit organization. All donations are tax deductible. So you said you're doing this with Project Pinball? Well, we're going to go through Project Pinball to get the machine. Got it. I reached out to Project Pinball, and they sent us a bunch of stuff to give away, and they've supported us through this whole endeavor. However, this is pretty much all of us. We're just coupling with them to help with a little promotional things here and there. They've been helpful. But, yeah, we've put this all together over the last two years. We're very excited. The Nacho Street Band has about 30 members in it. ages 14 to 70. So a diverse group of hacks. Right. Very cool. Very, very cool. What made you want to do this or start this endeavor? Well, we started the band without a whole lot of focus. And then as we started getting charts and started like, oh, we kind of sound pretty good, we decided, well, let's start raising money for Children's Hospital. How do we want to do that? Well, we don't want to just write them a check and then they pay for water and electricity. We wanted to give them something tangible. We wanted to give something for the kids to react with, and we weren't real sure how or what to do at that point. And we did a gig at the Ronald McDonald House, and we got a tour of the facility. And they have an arcade or a rec room, I should say, in their basement with a couple of arcade machines that aren't working so good. and a virtual pin, funny, a virtual pin that also wasn't working very well. And it just hadn't been maintenanced and it was kind of run down. So me being a pinball guy, I'm like, let's get a real machine in here so kids can actually play a real pinball machine. And that's what prompted me to – and I had heard of Project Pinball. That's what prompted me to get a hold of them. And it's amazing what those guys do. I mean, you guys donating to them through the tribe, which is amazing, by the way. Thank you. What they do is they'll – if you pay for a machine through them, they will find the machine. They will ship it. They will set it up, and they will service it for life. And if the machine ever becomes too run down to repair, they will put a new machine in its place or a newer machine. Maybe not the same one, but a newer machine. Their charity is amazing, and if folks don't know about them, I encourage you to support all what Project Pinball does. They are an amazing charity, and it sounds like what you're doing is pretty awesome, too. So I'm really excited to be part of this and help you spread that message. It's going to be a lot of fun. We're a bunch of trumpet and tuba players. we blad out a bunch of pop music, New Orleans style music we have a very good time we got a YouTube channel too so if you look up Nacho Street Band on YouTube you can see some of the live gigs we've done see you said band I was thinking Pete in a leather coat playing an electric guitar and you just sullied that whole image for me now not for me that actually makes it cooler I think it's way cooler like Mighty Mighty Boston oh that's awesome Well, I see what you did there. See what I said. There you go. He tells jokes like me, Ian. Yeah, way over my head. I'm glad you guys have a connection. I'd love it if anybody could come out on the 28th. If anybody with an earshot is in Columbus, come on out to J&D's. It's a stop on the pinball circuit, I suppose you could say, in Columbus. They've got nine machines in the bar, and they have frequent tournaments. They also host a Bells and Chimes there On like Tuesdays or Thursdays I forget So they're real involved In the Columbus Pinball Family Yeah so come on people Get up Come on Get out Get out March 28th JD Place Get crazy This is what I want to do Play pinball Listen to good music. Drew's feeling warm and fuzzy. Help out the kiddos. So this is what Drew wants to do, okay? Are you listening? Yeah. So as Pete alluded to earlier, we have been donating $10 each for each tribe member to Project Pinball. Which we've got to get out this month, yep. Hang on. That's where I'm going with that. So I donated the first $100 for Ryan Kuyper, Martin Dixie Reinhardt, Brad Hopkins, Ian Harwer, Eric Walker, Mike Williams, Glenn Glenn Waechter, Sean Frayden, Dave Jeff Brenner, and Josh Mudd. You guys got your donations out there. Awesome. Now, I owe for Daniel Donnell, Tim Lee, Brian Thomas, Pete Quint, Jeff LaGrange, Steve Johnson, Joseph Hood, Chris Haper, Billy YJ, and Chris Grosner. So here's what I want to do. I want to take that $100, and I want to give it to this other charity instead, okay? Now, any of those people that I mentioned have issue with that, just send us a message. I will send it to Project Pinball, your $10, because that's what we agreed to initially. Then I'm going to sweeten the deal even more. We're not done yet, folks. We're not done yet, folks. You get a TV, and you get a TV. You get a TV. If any of those 10 people that I mentioned want to do a $10 donation of their own, I will match that donation as well. So that would be a total of $300 then if they all donated. $200 from us and $100 from them. You guys are amazing. So Daniel Donald, Tim Lee, Brian Thomas, Pete Quint, Jeff LaGrange, Steve Johnson, Joseph Hood, Chris Haper, Billy YJ, Chris Grosner, send us a message. If I don't hear from you, the money's going to Pete's charity. If I do hear from you, I'll do as you wish with your $10 donation. Facebook page. If you want to send $10 to Pete's cause, what's that website again, Pete? We are at nachostreet.org. Okay. If you go to nachostreet.org, you send $10 to him, send me a copy of that receipt, I will match that donation, and we'll send an additional $10 for those 10 people. And we will post all this information. I'm taking copious notes. We'll put all this information on our Facebook page as well. So boom. So you can look it up there. So there you go. You guys are incredible. Thank you so much. This is why we like doing this. We like helping. We love the community. We really do. We say it all the time. And we're idiots. We know nothing about pinball, but we love the people that are involved with it. We love the people. Yes. It is for the kids. It's for the kids. It is for the kids. No, Project Pinball has been amazing. They do awesome stuff. You're doing something similar. You're kind of partnering with them. I just think this would be a good way to get you guys across the finish line. And then we're going to continue to donate to Project Pinball anyways. So it's kind of a win-win-win-win-win-win-win. One more win. Win. All the winning. Winning. So much winning. So anyways, calling you guys out. Give those $10 donations. NaturalStreet.org. All right. Well, Drew, I'm a little – I got goosebumps over here. Hey, I like surprising Ian, too. I do this stuff because Ian always looks at me and goes, what are you doing now? And I'm just like, this is what's happening right now. I don't know what's happening. What the hell is going on? He had that gleam in his eye, he had that look. I do. I just get these awesome ideas sometimes. Drew has that look in his eye like, I have all the money in the world. Watch this, folks. All right. Well, okay. Perfect. Let's do that. I could buy another mod, or I could do something good with my money. Yeah, no kidding. Come on, really? No kidding. That's what I think about when I buy some of this stuff. I'm like, really? Do I need another doll for my pinball machine? Okay, okay. All right. Sometimes you do. The answer is yes, Drew. Yes. Yes. The answer is always yes. That beeper, that alarm you heard in the background, that was our dad joke alarm. Yeah, we didn't want to ruin the good charity event. So, Drew, why don't you- I didn't hear it. Good. That's a good thing. It's true. Why don't you go ahead and start us off? I'm going to get us started. Get us started, baby. It's going to be as corny as always, and Ian's going to roll his eyes. Ready? Oh, yeah. People can hear that when I roll my eyes. They do. I gasp. How do you measure a red hot chili pepper? Oh, no. Give it away. Give it away. Give it away now. Give it away. Give it away. The groaning has begun. All right. All right. Sometimes I pick these out because I'm like, Ian's going to think this is terrible. I don't necessarily even find it that funny. I'm just like, Ian's going to hate this. Well, in that case, you succeed so well, sir. All right. I'm going to pause it here, boys. I'm going to get another cocktail. Perfect. We haven't done that in a couple weeks. All right. So, guys, enjoy the cocktail music. and now the moment you've all been waiting for of course i'm talking about the poor man's pinball podcast personal pinball news i don't think we have any news drew do we oh no i don't have any news wait a minute first of all i want to thank zach at flipping out pinball uh as you guys know i got my jurassic park premium i i put it all over the facebook wall everybody knows that i put it over the poor man's uh tribe wall um zach flipping out pinball if you're looking for a new pinball machine or escalera stair climbing hand truck call zach 812-457-9711 that's the last shill you're ever going to hear from me later zach no just kidding no he was he was awesome everyone who talks him up and says hey you know what do some people say zach you're a lot of you're a lot of things but you're a really great distributor no no no see he knows i'm kidding no seriously he uh he communicated well he he got payment he shipped it out the next day it was there in like two days i'm not kidding i mean that's good stuff it was it was just top notch all right drew so you got jurassic park i did oh beautiful it's awesome how's it playing you got the you got the the premium yep nice yep everything is flawless and perfect except just like a lot of other people that that shooter lane um the shooter rod and the auto um plunger yeah it just some adjustments need to be made okay it's just it's been a common thing you know and you know a couple people you get these like um you know nylon washers nothing i can't do you know it's just some nylon washers you you take off the screw on the the bracket and you kind of put so what's what's the problem it seems like the um where the wood is recessed yeah where the in the shooter lane where the metal bracket sits on it. Yeah. One side tends to be lifted a little bit because there were a couple people putting slow motion videos online. And so what happens is the ball hits it and then kind of goes a little off track to the left and then it doesn't make that loop around. And it's not every time. It's like, I don't know, it's probably only like two out of ten that it doesn't do it. It's just enough. Yeah, just enough. Where it pisses you off and ruins your game. Yeah, correct. It's one of those things. And then sometimes if it's a ball save or something, then the auto plunger will go. And it's kind of the same thing because it's obviously in the track, not in the plunger or whatever. So somebody online just kind of got these two nylon washers. He taped them together. He unscrewed it, put the nylon washers underneath, and that kind of leveled it out. No big deal. Interesting. Like 10-cent washers. So it's just adjustments. I've had that in almost every game where I had to make some small tweak to something. So that, yeah, it's not concerning. And in the game, like I said, all the mechs and switches. I mean, even on Alice Cooper, I had to adjust a few slingshots switches when I got it. You know? Yeah, this is the time where people need to, like, take a breath with these kind of things and just go, OK, well. You know how much engineering is in a box of lights? You know, it's not just a box of lights. There's a lot of engineering there. And if you're talking about, OK, something needs to be raised by a washer. yes i mean that's almost silly no you know what i'm saying absolutely you know me i'm like that stuff it doesn't bother me i like tinkering with them and no i don't have to make these great i don't have to put rubber bands somewhere well the only thing about the stranger things i was just going to say about the stranger things and because i made a big deal i didn't say stranger things i am i am i'm going right at it because people are like well you talked about stranger things two weeks ago well the reason why i bring that up is like the stranger things it seems like there's more of that like that's the central toy yes i i totally agree that's the problem you know it's it's one of those things where you need to really look at see what's important with the game and you know as long as all the toys and mechs work perfectly and all the shots and scoring work perfectly great we're talking about a plunge yes no no exactly and and like i said it's adjustments i mean those kind of things happen over time anyways you know you play a game enough and stuff wears out. I mean, it's what happens. So, no, it's great. T-Rex works fine. Perfect. There isn't a premium that I've seen in Columbus yet, so I'm looking forward to hitting a premium when I do. To see that T-Rex move. That's going to be so cool. Yes. I bought the Pinovator's headphone set. Cool. I got myself some corded headphones, plug them in. I got the subwoofer kit. Nice. Oh, nice. With the T-Rex? Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, exactly. I've had the subwoofer for a while. I had it on Metallica, then I put it on Alice, and it's one of those big poke subs. And, yeah, I can't wait. I haven't put it in yet. I can't wait to hear that roar. Because that roar sounds really good just out of the stock speakers. Yeah. And it is, oh, man, it's just so awesome. The sound effects, it's just so good. It's a shooter's game. It's my game. It's awesome. Yeah. I dig it. Yeah? Did you know? Did you know I love Jurassic Park? No, I'm just waiting for more. I don't know. I feel like you're enthused, but I feel like you're being a little reserved right now. Well, I am. And I'm really looking forward to it. Because I'm still in the honeymoon phase. I'm giving you the go-ahead, dude. What else? How's the art looking? Because the premium art is pretty decent. It is. It has the raptor scene on the one side of the kitchen. That's my favorite part. It is good. And the back glass, it's cool because it's got the one raptor in the forefront. It's kind of got the saliva dripping from his mouth. It's mouth's open. And then it's got two in the back kind of stalking around with the gate. Does the game come with the most up-to-date code, or did you have to update the code? It was 1.0, which is the one, yeah, I believe they just released. Oh, good shit. Because the build date on mine was February 20th. I mean, it's new, new. It just rolled out of the factory. George Gomez just turned the last screw on it, he told me. Pete, have you played Jurassic Park? I have. We've got several of the pros in town. I haven't played the premium yet, but I'm really looking forward to playing the premium because I definitely want to see the T-Rex move. That just sounds awesome. And the raptor pit doesn't get enough... Love? Yeah. I mean, people like it. Is the raptor pit above the left sling? Yes. Okay. and the premium, so the Pro, you know, it has a couple targets in there, I believe, but the premium has the gate that raises. Oh. I didn't start the timer, so why don't we do a dad joke? Ding! Dad joke. Who's up? Pete, why don't you do the dad joke? All right. Mine are all music-related since I'm here promoting a music thing. so i'd like to ask you drew how do you fix a broken tuba oh with a leather jacket and a guitar oh shit i don't know what do you do with a tuba glue that that's good i like that way more than yours true that was really funny i don't know why that was so dumb oh shit all right that was great pete thank you very much sir for that we'll start the timer all right oh man all right so what were we talking about i blacked out uh drastic park uh yeah the the raptor pit the raptor pit yeah so um the premium has an up post in there that'll actually lock a ball so when you yeah so the first hit will drop the um the gate and then a few more hits and And then the up post goes up, it locks the ball, and then it actually comes right back down because then the gate goes up and then it's locked in there. And then that gate actually becomes a kinetic toy. Oh, cool. So as you're hitting it, there's like two targets in there or three targets, and then it bashes it. Oh, that's cool. And then once you get that ball out, it starts the Raptor tri-ball. That's the nod to the old Data East. Cool. Jurassic Park. That game was cool, too, man. Yeah. No, that game is fun. It is a fun game. Jurassic Park. And I looked at it because I've always been a Jurassic Park fan. That one. And that one used to be affordable. And now that one's even like $3,500. There's nothing affordable in this hobby anymore. Taxi's going up to like four grand now. No, it is. We got to stop talking about taxi. Yeah. Stop talking about taxi. I want one. I want one too. We got to stop talking about it. What a terrible game. Everybody, sell yours. It's awful. It's the worst game ever. I'm in my top three. Anyway, so edit, edit, edit. Yeah, we'll just edit that out. um but yeah it's it's awesome and uh you know i'm gonna i'm going to slowly buy mods for this one because i think it's bolted but i'm not gonna go metallica iron maiden crazy on it yes yes why not well there's there's something i gotta buy i know i know i almost feel like with that game like if you modded it out i bet you'd get a lot of that money back uh certain games like that it makes sense people have um set yeah kind of like metallica had a lot of the really cool mods you know that was one of the probably the most modded game of all time yeah um yeah same thing people say like some of the jurassic park mods are some of the best mods that have been made to date so i agree i mean you just got to be careful what you you know what you what you purchase right like with the whitewater i don't know if i'm gonna i don't like much of the mods for whitewater i find that with a lot of games i look at it like picky i'm like no i don't think i need all that but with when i had black rose my first game i was like i'm buying everything oh that's what everyone i couldn't even wait for uh pirates jjps to come out because i was going to buy all the jersey jack pirates mods and put them on my black rose yeah it was going to be the most it was the most expensive black rose i've you know ever built but so speaking of that what do you guys think should i do mirror blades or uh pin blades for that oh it didn't come with on no no i feel like a premium should they should they should totally come with the the pin blades the decals oh so ding ding ding we got a another dad joke it's my turn all right so you can't top the tube of glue yeah whatever i'm gonna try um what do you call a rapper that loves making gumbo jaru a little room wow jaru you you don't have to edit in cricket noises because they're everywhere oh whatever it's jaru i gotta keep saying the punchline yeah you guys laugh yeah Oh, we're laughing, but not at the punchline. Restarting that timer. The delivery was nice. Thank you. It was. It was. So, Jurassic Park so far, I say mod it. Mirror Blades or? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think Mirror Blades would be good on that. I guess I got to look at it. I got to come over. I have to inspect first. That's fine. But you know what? I know the Mirror Blades. I don't know the other one. To be honest, I like Mirror Blades a lot better in general. I'm leaning towards them now. Because I had art on the sides for Monster Bash, and I had Mirror Blades for Black Rose, and I just feel that Mirror Blades opens up the play field, whereas any kind of artwork on the side kind of closes it in and makes it a box. I agree. So we got to get some Laser War Mirror Blades. Oh, for sure. That one screams Mirror Blades. That isn't even a question. That's happening. That's a good segue. We'll go into Laser War Update. So MGC is coming close. It is. Got about less than a month. I registered the machine, and look at this thing right now. Hey, hey, if we don't get it done, we're bringing it just like that. Yeah, I registered the machine to bring to MGC, folks. Right now the play field is still on the poor man's rack. The poor man rack. I still got to clear coat it. I did order the clear coat. I am going to go with the system that Dave Jeff Brenner used on the latest stream of TurboGrafx-7. I'm not even going to say what it is because I want you to go and check out their stream. That's TurboGrafx-7 on Twitch. He just rolled out, yes, you heard it right, he rolled out the clear on their Alien Star Restore. So take a look at that. And I bought that same thing. You can get it on Amazon. And it wasn't too bad. It was $40 for a pint. So we're going to try it out, see how it works for Laser War. But what do we need to do to meet our deadline, Drew? A lot. So we essentially got three weeks, including this week. You're listening to this on Wednesday. We're recording Monday night. I got all of the stuff we want powder-coated off the machine. So tomorrow, Tuesday, I'm going to go to the powder-coater, drop that off. and then um once this clear gets here i still got to kind of come up with a plan of action for this if it's a nice day i might be able to do it outside yeah when you said that earlier i was thinking you'll probably get a day where you can we might get a nice day coming up because we've been in the 50s and we've been just touching just slightly touching the 60s so do it in the living room i'm sure the wife won't mind yeah so i think i'm going to spray it out just because i don't want to remove everything on the back side of the play field there's just i just my problem is it's an older game i just worry about solder cracking and i just don't want to have to resolder everything to get it for mgc does that make sense it does it makes sense to me in my head it does well and once again this is our first like restore like this it doesn't have to be perfect exactly so we're learning it's not gonna be and you know what it's one of those things where no one's gonna know but you i'm not doing damage i'm only helping this you know what i'm saying everything i've done so far i'm making it better before it was a great way of looking it was destroyed yes so we are we are it looks pretty now we just going to make it shiny and pretty and then uh i do have a chromer lined up i think i gonna chrome our we got a a new old stock black plastic ramp I don know why they came black I wish they came pre but they didn So we're going to chrome that. I'm still debating on the speaker grill, but if I'm going to chrome the ramp, might as well chrome the speaker grill too. When in Rome, chrome. I don't know how much it's going to be, but at this point, we don't have a price limit for Laser War because how could you put a price on something so beautiful? Well, I can. And right now it's worth about $12.50 because it's all in channels. Have you taken pictures of this? We've got to share this on our page. I will. I will. I will. I plan on it. Lighting's shit, and this room is a disaster. My bar is now a... It's a pinball factory. I love it. It makes me sad coming down here. I get anxiety looking at all this crap. See, I like work on this shit. So for me, I'm like, oh, this is so cool. Yeah, we're trying to host parties, and I'm like, nope, not yet. Not yet. The bar isn't open yet. We still got to clean up everything. Timer just went off. Yeah, Drew, why don't you give us a dad joke? All right, this one's super topical. Are you guys ready? Pete, are you ready? Bring it. I thought Pete left. It's like, are you still talking? Jesus. All right, what do we got? The World Health Organization, otherwise known as WHO, has declared that dogs cannot transmit coronavirus. Uh-oh. And there's no reason to quarantine dogs anymore. Who let the dogs out? man your jokes just hurt yeah i'm no better yeah you know the guy gets one good dad joke and he's the king of dad jokes that's how this works all right what have you done for me lately i'm on to you pete All right. Real quick, a couple more personal news, if I can. Sure, Drew. I took first place in my league this week. No kidding. I did. I thought you guys were terrible. I am terrible. Drew is not a terrible player. Anybody else show up? Oh, thanks, Pete. You fit in here, man. I love it. I love it. No, I play in this casual league, and I've done okay. But, no, I took first place. How many people? I think it was 20 or 25 there that day. No, it was great. This is your, how many of these have you been to? Six or seven. Wow, you've been to that many? Well, this particular one is every other week now, and it goes for 10 sessions, so like 20 weeks. Okay. It's twice a month. And this was the fourth one for this season, I guess, as you call it. Okay. So four here, and then maybe two last year. So six. Yeah, six or seven times. Number one. Number one? How does it feel? It feels awesome. It did. Well, we were, so one of our listeners, Jeremy Schmitz, him and I have been becoming fast friends. We hang out, talk there, and we're always talking about going out drinking. We'll get there, Jeremy. He told me, so he was supposed to go to Florida for this music festival. Yeah. And it got canceled. So it's the same weekend as TPF. So now he just transferred his Southwest flight to Texas. so he's going to TPF but now TPF might be cancelled I hope not who said that? well no I tell you it's just a lot of these places are cancelling now so I don't know we don't know what's going to happen it's Texas buddy they don't cancel anything they don't believe in the coronavirus they're like drink a beer shoot a cow you'll be fine they got guns they shoot that coronavirus I don't know Pete I'm not from Texas I don't know what they say down there shoot it up and cow i don't know pete knows what i'm talking about pete but he understands anyway it's texas so so it's cool though because uh you know jeremy's gonna be down there but the big news that happened so last time last week bigger than your number one finish way bigger okay you ready for are you sitting down ian i am i know you are because i'm looking at you yeah what's happening so last week i was i was talking i was talking about how disappointed i was that I wasn't going to be presenting at the Twippies, right? This is good news. Like I said, I understand Jeff Patterson's position, but I'm just disappointed. That's just how I feel. That's fine. Crime. Yep, crime. Jeff emailed me back. Prior to our episode. No, it had to have been Tuesday. We recorded that. It was Tuesday. Yes, that's right. We recorded it on Monday, and it was the day after. Yep, it was the day after. It was Tuesday when we... Yeah. So the episode didn't air until Wednesday. So we didn't know this. Correct. Does that make sense? Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. I am going to be presenting with none other than Mr. Christopher Franchi. Oh, my freaking man crush. And Ian is so jealous. Ah, that is so cool. That is cool. Because I don't even know if we should share this on the podcast. Should we? I think so. Oh, it's done, dude. It's done. It's there. because I'm super excited. I am so excited. You and Franchi are going to be a great team. We are. Two big teddy bears up on stage doing teddy bear stuff. Oh, yeah. Yeah. How can you go wrong? No. Christopher Franchi, love you, man. Hey, you lay off him. He's mine. You're going to have to fight me for him. Very true. Very cool. See, I'm giggling and smiling right now because it's so cool. I'm so happy. And Chris and I have been, we message back and forth quite a bit. Yeah, he's super cool, and we just have a lot of fun messaging stupid stuff back and forth. And I'm always telling him to get back to work, and he tells me to quit my job and not work. Because I'm like, Chris, really, I can't sit here and talk to you all day. I got shit to do. Don't you have shit to do? Yeah, yeah, sort of. That's my Chris impression. That's a good one, yeah. But no, it's just, I'm really excited. We don't have to plug it, but we might as well. The Super Awesome Pinball Podcast is still going on. Super Awesome Pinball Show. Saps. Saps, yep. Once a month, roughly. Yeah. They said their next one will be the wrap-up after TPF. Perfect. So they just had one last week. It was a great episode. He didn't talk about me on there, but Chris Franci, it was still satisfying anyways. I thought he did talk about a urinal instance or two. He did. He didn't mention me my name, but yeah, everyone knew. No, he did. They said the poor men. Yeah. So now I'm getting lumped into your shenanigans. Yep, yep. I love it. I'm like, yeah, I think that was Ian. Yeah, they were like, I'm sure. Yeah, I think Cary Hardy was talking about it. No, no, no. Someone was talking about us pissing in a flower bed? No, but the whole thing started with they were talking to Jeff Patterson about what other categories they should have for the Twippies. Yeah, and Christopher Franchi said something like, biggest debacle in a pinball expos bathroom or something urinal yeah hey at least we'd get a twippy out of it i'd take it all day long well i'd i'd probably display that on my shelf we'd take pictures of it oh that would be jeff patterson are you listening can you order another twippy for bathroom urinal hijinks with like a toilet on top this is the twippy toilet award oh man the stanley cup where yeah ends up in all sorts of like at the bottom of a pool or get a chill-a-mole. Yeah, people would want to take pictures with that and get our autographs. No, they wouldn't. So anyways, that's my exciting news. That's awesome. That was a good Poor Man's Pinball Podcast personal pinball news. I love it. We've never gotten to the hour mark just doing the personal news. We had so much good news this week. It was a lot of stuff. We had a lot of good stuff going. Do you have any personal pinball news you want to share, Pete? My virtual pinball machine is still broken i love it so for you guys who don't know i played an alien star a couple weeks ago and oh i played an excalibur how was that we ian and i were talking that is a hoot that game is a ball but it's because it's so old it's darn near flat so there's no there's no yeah there's no elevation to it some of the best games i've you played firepower i mean come on that's okay that's true that's caliber that was that one you and i were looking at ian remember no i remember yeah that one was for sale and then beautiful yeah and then we saw it at uh expo they had one yeah yeah it's uh it's a neat game so cool stuff man so do you have a lot of uh pinball by where you're at pete yeah columbus is dripping dripping is that the right word yeah It is today. It's chock full of pinball places. We've got two pins locations. We've got a place called One. You say that like, is that like a chain or something? Pins is a franchise. There's two in Cincinnati. There's two in Columbus. And they also own, they're under the same umbrella as 16-Bit Arcade, which I think there's one in Cleveland as well as Cincinnati. So these are all barcades. Then there's another place called Level One. And then there are a whole bunch of – we've got a cornucopia of craft brewing here in Columbus. And almost every single craft brewery has at least one machine, if not multiples. And there's one called Arcade Super Awesome that's actually the other side of a brewery called Sideswipe. and they've got a ton of games over there, just a whole bunch. It's really well maintained. John Geiger is over there. He takes care of all of them. He's got all the JJPs. He's got most of the modern Sterns. He's got – Wow. Shout out, John. Yeah. Yeah, John's not screwing around. He's got a great setup down there. He's got an Alice Cooper and a TNA also at that location. it's great we're lacking in Milwaukee we really are that's a shame Milwaukee's a bustling metropolitan we have some good pinball shout out to Fink's, shout out to the Garcade shout out to Blackbird we have some good stuff here but it's not like that there's these few haunts that you go to but you're just talking about every street corner every place you're at has them that's that's not what it's like here it's it's not hard to find a pinball palace in columbus and if milwaukee doesn't have it i think you guys might have a business opportunity to open up a parkade over there uh did you read our title of our our show how many drew 14 were you talking about i have bought and sold 14 pinball machines however how How many do you have right now? Six. Seven. I had to put one at Ian's house because I ran out of room. Okay. All right. So, okay. All right. Seven, huh? All right. Our episode is called Drinking Coronavirus by the Beach. What are you talking about? What does that mean? I like to keep everyone guessing. We're all over the place. I don't even know what he's talking about. I don't know. Pete, I'm with you, man. I don't get it. Yeah. No, you know, Pete, I'm still... still pete two of my machines don't work i'm way i'm sorry i agree with you though pete there is definitely a business opportunity in milwaukee especially since madison is becoming so pin centric yeah and and that's what we're comparing to yeah it's an hour away yep and madison has like like you were talking about see a lot of places around here they don't have like the jjp pins all right we got a dad joke sorry drew to cut you off no you're good you're up man is it My turn or is it Pete? Pete's turn. It's you, man. Oh, yeah. It's my turn. Okay. So, Ian, why shouldn't you let kids watch a big band performance on TV? I don't know. Why? There's too much sax and violins. I love that. That's good. That's good. I love it. That was actually good. All right. So you're 2-0, which is making Drew and I look bad here. Yeah, if we kept score, I think Ian and I would be in the negative right now. Yeah, it's not looking pretty. All right. So let's go into news. Can we just – let's move past it. Yeah, jump into the news. That was the best Poor Man's Pinball Podcast personal pinball news we've ever done, though. You're right. Easy, easy. That was awesome. Pete, thanks for that, man. Yeah. That kicks ass. So news. Dutch pinball. So did you guys see this video? Sure. so so dutch pinball you're good so so dutch pinball released this video um they have a special apron for the uh early achievers and uh basically what it is it's a metal apron that's laser cut and it says like achiever edition on it or something and there's an additional light show that when it spirals around it goes underneath there and lights it up because like that did you You hear my eyeballs rolling there? Yes, I totally did. No, no, I feel the same way. I think, here's the thing. I think it's great that it looks like there's some movement. I just don't know that between that and showing, you know, one game going on a truck is enough to say. You know what I mean? They're getting the easy stuff done. Yeah, correct. This is easy stuff. I want to see, you know. This is just decoration, and I don't mean to be so angry. No, I'm with you, man. I'm with you. I'm just like, do it or don't. I would love to see them ship out a bunch of games. Have like when Jersey Jacks had that shipment of Wonkas, right? How excited he was doing cartwheels on the lawn. We need to see that. We need to see like Dutch Pinball saying, hey, here's eight games. Here's 10 games. They're going out. Because if I see 10 games, that's promise, right? Yeah. Yes. Like 10 games. It's not a truckload, but it's a great start, I would say. in my opinion well one of the biggest differences between jersey jack and dutch there's a lot of them don't get me wrong a million there's a ton of them but jack was able to be bailed out by a billionaire investor dutch has not been able to find that billionaire guy that's going to touch him on the shoulder and say just build them all but send them but the difference is jersey jack didn't take your money oh a huge difference yeah no and i get it yeah that's the biggest difference I am not defending Dutch at all. Because like Cosmic Carnival, Suncoast. My point was that I'm sure Dutch would love to be on a lawn doing cartwheels and sending everything out. But that costs money. He blew that money. And here we are, still talking about it years later. I know. That was 2016. We weren't even podcasting then. I thought the pinball world started when we started podcasting. Was Dutch pinball in 2016? I thought it was before that. No, I think the Big Lebowski started shipping, quote-unquote, in 2016. Oh, okay. I could be wrong. It was probably announced the year before. But it was a couple years before they even started shipping, wasn't it? Yeah, because they did the tour around the $20 shows. You're right. It's probably like six or seven years. Albatross has been hanging around their necks for, what, seven years now? Yeah, we're almost two election cycles past that. Right, right. It's pretty crazy. It's so frustrating to talk about this. Yeah, but that was it. I mean, it's like, okay. But maybe, just maybe, they're getting some traction. I'm hoping. All right. So what else we got, Drew? Spooky Pinball. So this flipping podcast, you listen to that one? I don't. So they're just talking about the deal between Spooky and CGC and kind of how that's all coming together. Spooky made the deal for however many Rick and Mortys would be produced with Cartoon Network. Charlie did tell me that they make the deal because it gives them their 18 months of production and keeps them busy, but also because they already have two more licenses that are being worked on. And those licenses also have a time frame on when they need to be built, although we know they're busy for the next 18 months, obviously, Rick and Morty, right? And they already have their plans with whoever their next licenses are. Charlie said the next two licenses are ready to go and they're already on the clock. what do we think about that i think it's awesome i totally agree i mean charlie is doing he's figured it out and he's he's this company is making it and partnering up with chicago gaming company cgc is was was the most brilliant trump card he could have played because now he's got a facility that can double his production because the little thing in Benton he's got, the production facility he's got in Benton, can only do the 750, and it's going to take clearly 18 months. But now he can produce another game because he's got another facility to do that in. And I think he's struggled. He's figured it out. He's got the formula now. No, it is amazing because before Alice Cooper, you know, it looked like, yeah, they're selling games, but they were kind of making them at their own pace. And that was fine because, you know, they didn't sell out one day. You know, they'd get orders. They'd make orders. You know, that was kind of their thing. But now they have this kind of juggernaut where they sell out in one day. Well, now, yeah, they have work for the next 18 months, which is a good problem to have. but it's like you know now there's other span spans there's other fans of spooky that that wanna that want spooky games right yes so it's like okay you know rick and morty's great but you know everyone always wants the new shiny and now if they could you know they don't have to like make like three games a year but if they could have like one game every year and make a thousand of them that would be pretty awesome you know with it like you said like with a cgc or something like that so i i think it's great i can't wait to see what uh especially if Christopher Franchi's on the art oh man i mean that's that that's going to be something amazing i mean you got just just imagine you know alice cooper had great art but now just imagine you put someone like Christopher Franchi on it right oh Jeff Zornow was is an amazing artist no that whole comic book thing that he did for spooky was incredible i i told a lot of people that like you know i'm not you know alice cooper's okay you know i know i'm from wayne's world growing up and this and that but um you know and i'm not a huge alice cooper fan by any stretch but when i had that game i was like this game just looks great you know everything about it just kind of came together so it is pretty awesome yeah i'd say this um we had a uh email come through so speaking of charlie we'll just do an early mailbag here we got an email or a message on facebook from uh chad cohen chad cohen uh so he said uh so i have a story i was hoping you guys might chase down i would shoot the guy a message but i think it's the kind of thing that the pinball community should hear about You guys may have seen in the Pinside Rick and Morty threads that Concrete Heart got his game early from Spooky. From what I gather he has cancer and they built this one out of order to get it to him I think it an awesome thing for Spooky to do and I like to learn more about it Hope you guys can do a story on it Well, I did email Charlie, and he emailed back, and this is what he said, because Charlie is a humble dude, so I don't think he's going to go off on very... Charlie's an awesome dude. Yeah, he's not going to go into some serious, like, blah, blah, blah, this is what happened. And so Charlie, a man of high integrity, said, yes, that did happen. We aren't going to talk about it personally. Just not why we did it. Life put us in a good position to do something nice, so we did it. And that's all there is to it. And that kind of sums up Spooky Pinball. How do you not just love Charlie even more? Here's a big old podcast hug for Charlie. That's all I got to say. Let's give him a triple podcast hug. No, that sums up Spooky Pinball. That's good stuff, man. That's it, man. That's cool. That's good stuff. Way to go, Charlie and T. Charlie, we love you. Awesome. Way to be a human being. Yeah. Isn't that funny? That's exactly it. All right, we got a dad joke. Speaking of not being a human being. All right, so I think it's my turn for a dad joke. I think it's my turn, dude. Did I get skipped? I think you skipped me, dude. No. Pete, you went first. Whose turn is it? You went. Pete went, and now it's my turn. we're going this way as if Pete was sitting here yeah I know but you just went last what did you tell last time I only did one joke my jaw ruled joke oh yeah sorry it was so bad I thought you told three go ahead you jerk alright here we go how do rabbits travel across the country they get on a hair plane oh that's good Yeah. That was not bad. That was good. That one made me chuckle. I like that one. That one made me chuckle. I'm going to edit a laughter in there. Hold on. Let me put my pen here. Last track in that one. Super laughter. 107. Everyone laughed so hard. Edit, edit, edit. It was the funniest thing ever told to anybody ever. All right. Okay. Resetting the timer now. This timer needs to move a little bit here. All right. Thank you, sir, may I have another? Poor Man's Pinball Tribe. Thank you, sir, may I have another? Poor Man's Pinball Tribe. Thank you, sir, may I have another? Poor Man's Pinball Tribe. Right now, yeah! It's time for the tribe members. It is. We have a single tribe member this week. we are starting only to induct one tribe member why? we're an exclusive group right Pete? we're not whores you're running out of listeners we're running out of listeners of course I know we're going to get to 30 quickly and then we're like now what do we do who wants to be a tribe member raise your hand we need more tribe members is that the fourth super secret? yeah you gotta raise your hand how do you become a tribe member Drew? Well, number one, you like us on Facebook. Easy. How hard is that? I mean, come on, really? If you haven't liked us by now, you shouldn't be listening. Just like us. Like us on Facebook. Real simple. I know you're out there, people. You saw the numbers. All right. Number two. Did you forget number two? All right, number two is to communicate with us. Communicate with us regularly. Yep, number three, help us grow our podcast. Yep, anyway. Number three, help us share our link. Share a link on Pinside. It doesn't take much. Tell your friends. Pillars 4 and 5 of the 5 Pillars of Excellence are completely secret. Pete, do you know what those are? Huh? Yeah, he doesn't know. He has an NDA signed with us. He can't tell about the 4 and 5. I signed a nondisclosure. Yep, that's an ironclad nondisclosure, too. I've talked to my poor man's lawyers. Yeah, that's a legit thing. Don't mess with the poor man's lawyers. No. You know how much we pay them? Yeah. Yeah, that's the only thing we ever spent money on. So anyways. We have to after that F it Friday with our exes. Oh, man. Yeah, that was bad. Oh, it's so good. We had several lawsuits after that one. Yeah, that was a good one, though. No regrets, baby. No, never. Should we do a drum roll? Let's do the drum roll. The next tribe member. Troy Swope. Troy! What? Troy Swope he has been emailing us pretty much since the beginning right we have some emails that go back quite a while with him yeah he's emailed in him and I have shared some messages online we've been kind of going back and forth recently but I want to share a couple of his recent emails just because they're funny they're poor man style and this is why he is officially tribe member number 21 so you will forever be known as number 21, Troy. So here's the first email. First, sorry, but he's talking to Ian here, by the way. First, sorry, but Jurassic Park is amazeballs. And if you have to listen to Drew going on and on, then, well, that just has to happen. Next, I forgot, but I've been drinking, and I'm in a boob bar right now. Suck on that. I'll finish my thoughts on the rest later. That's poor man's style right there. He's too drunk to finish his email. I'm sorry I missed Boobie Wednesday. I'll send a makeup photo or two tomorrow when I'm a little more sober. Love you guys and keep up the great podcast. Love you, buttholes. All right. Sorry, and he signed that one. Oh, wait. Tribe member number... Oh, you haven't assigned me one yet. Effers. Yep. That's the best PS ever. Email number two. This is what he forgot in the first one. I love the relationship you guys have with one another. I only wish I had a best buddy or a great friend that I could share my passion with. That being said, how do your wives get along? Please tell me they are great friends as well. And if not, please lie to me because I don't want you guys to F up Troy land. He's asking about our wives. Well, let's finish it. Thanks again for all you do. Can't wait to play some pinball or drink with you guys eventually. Yep, love Troy. Absolutely, Troy. Our wives. They get along. They get along great. Yeah, my wife loves your wife. Yeah, they hang out. They text occasionally. when we go out, they always have a good time. Basically, it's... They have a lot of battle stories that are the same. Yes. They can relate so much. Yes, it's always like, oh, what did the morons do this time? We're always just lumped together as those guys that did that thing. It's fine. But no, they get along great. They're friends. Yeah, it's fun times. We're trying to get them all on. My wife is pretty close to agreeing. where she's reluctantly said probably. All right. That's good. So we're trying maybe for a big 50th. For our 50th, yeah, we want to get our two wives on. We'll see how that goes. I think the gals should take it over and kick you guys out of the studio. That's actually a good idea. It's just theirs. Pete, that might work. They can tell stories about you ding-dongs. Yeah, we'll sit in the bar and just drink and watch them just go to town. About us ding-dongs or about our ding-dongs? No, I don't want to talk about our ding-dongs. So anyways, Troy, thank you for those awesome emails. Thank you for being a supporter of the show. Timer's up. Thank you, Troy. Thank you, Troy. I'm going to tell you a dad joke now. Troy, this is for you, baby. And Pete, you're going to like this one because it's also music-related. JaRu was. No, it wasn't. That was not music related. That was terrible. My wife told me to stop singing Wonderwall. I said maybe. Is that in the song Wonderwall? Mm-hmm. Nothing? Really? God damn. That is a stretch. That one was a stretch. All right. We'll have to play a little clip of the song while that's going on. All right. There you go. All right. Anyway. God lord. Some of our listeners will get it. some of our some of our uh higher brow listeners yeah some of some of the some of the real good listeners huh all right i hear you high brow listeners will enjoy it all right um okay so are we doing mailbag mailbag all right mailbag what do we got first one from brian thomas guys just wanted to say great episode last week i haven't laughed that hard in a while between love letters and neil's drunken pinball that was pretty awesome what'd you think about that neil's drunken pinball i loved it neil's uh he's the trip he's he's funny and you know just the the cool the minnesota accent and just goofing around and and he was informative though that was the best part that's what like that's like like i don't know getting stabbed and then turning the blade like he's just so good he's funnier yeah i was dismissing the bit and then i went wait you're actually telling me things yeah you're nice i'm learning no that that was it because it did it seemed like kind of shtick and it was like the character, but he's like, no, I'm going to teach you how to play Alien Poker. He did. So, Neil, thanks for that, man. We'd like some more. I think he's working on some more. I hope so. I hope so. So, anyway, this email goes on. Drew will be interested to know that I've started a series of posts on my playfield swap on Creature from the Black Lagoon. And then he sends a link there. One suggestion I have for you regarding shopping and playfield swaps after hearing about Ian losing his photos. In addition to photos, I also keep a written log of my work. For the top side, it's kind of intuitive in what order of things I have, things that have to be removed. But it's good to write down every screw removed or wire disconnected. It's similar to what you'll find on a pin wiki. For the other side of the play field, I start from the bottom of the play field and work my way left to right as I move towards the top and write down everything I removed. For example, it might look something like this. one remove two hex screws from the wire guide okay brian i'm not doing all that but i get what you're saying we're not i'm not i'm not messing with the bottom of the play field i think i'm just going to stick with what's on the top and i'm going to clear it as is so we'll see how that goes but brian thank you very much um yeah losing the photos does suck even the top of the play field it's there's still a lot that goes on in it so it's amazing once you start like even my firepower i started kind of dismantling it same thing it's like it doesn't look like a lot but as you start taking apart there's a lot of screws there's a lot of stuff i'm just grateful i took good care in separating everything in plastic bags and labeling each bag so yeah so it's not like we have nothing i mean it's it's it's it's gonna be just fine um tom weston from Robert Englunds sent us a bunch of inappropriate things on youtube so tom i just i'm not gonna repeat it but we love you tom um and then let's see what else we got steve johnson writes uh hope you guys got some good sleep for the episode this week he will be grading it oh steve oh let's just call it i'm done with that let's do you know what we should do we should just do freaking dad jokes until we get sick of them. Pete, why don't you wait. It's my turn, isn't it? It is your turn. Do it. Why did the... Oh, no. I did it last. I did the hair plan, right? So, Drew, it's your turn. Well, I did the last one with Wonderwall. Wonderwall? All right. Then it's Pete's turn. Jesus Christ. Okay, whatever. It doesn't matter, I suppose. So, Drew, how do you make a bandstand? stand it up i don't know no you take away their chairs pete that was a weak one i'll just say i'll put myself i kid i kid all right here i go uh why did the sesame seed leave the casino because he was on a roll Oh, my God. I'd like that one. Thank you. I was saving the best for the last. Drew, what do you got? I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know. Drew, that was good. That was a real good one. I do like that one, actually. Okay, what do you call a beautiful woman on a trombonist's arm? A tromboner? A tattoo. don't get it that's cool um no go ahead i'm not gonna explain it yeah explain it they're way funnier when you explain it did you hear about the guy who got hit by a bicycle every day over and over and over again it was a vicious cycle Drew I'd like to thank my legs for supporting me my arms for always being by my side and my fingers I could always count on them yep we're getting to the end folks how did you make a million dollars playing jazz music I don't know don't follow the notes start with two million oh that was good that was good i'm out guys i'm out drew you got anything else no not in the hopper pete what do you got how many or what's a golf club's favorite type of music uh i don't know swing i got i should have known that one i got a good one this is gonna need to be bleeped out but it's going on it's gonna take us out how's that ready sure yep yep i hear coronavirus porn is trending what a bunch of sick all right so we're wrapping it up all right there we go that was episode 48 folks we got Pete Quint here. We got tribe member number... Number 14. We got number 14 with us. We have a new tribe member this week. Troy Swope. We're calling him Swope. Troy, let us know how you pronounce that. Is Swope the past tense of swipe? Yeah, he's Swope it. He's Swoped it. I don't know. He's tribe member number 21. Pete, thank you so much. This was a lot of fun. Did you enjoy it? Oh my gosh. Anytime. we need to do this again. I need to come up there and just drink with you guys in studio. It's not much different. No, it's exactly the same, except when you tell a joke, then you see us rolling our eyes. And the same thing goes for your jokes too, buddy. Don't worry. Good fun, man. I'm glad you came out and hung out with us today, and we didn't learn about pinball as usual, and here we are. That's the beauty of it, though. secondary on this podcast you know it brother you want to pimp that charity one more time Pete well we are performing at J&D's place in Worthington Ohio on March the 28th we have three bands starting at 7pm there's no cover to get in but we would love to have your donations if you can make it we'd love to see you there's going to be 50-50 and there's going to be raffles and all sorts of things. If you can't be there, if you're out of state and still want to support the kids to get a pinball machine in the Ronald McDonald House of Central Ohio, please go to our website at nachostreet.org and hit that donation button. Five, ten, five thousand dollars. All that is very, very helpful. So thank you very much. I appreciate all that you're doing, Drew and Ian, in helping our fundraiser. And we'll let you know what's going on. We'll be posting pictures, I'm sure. We'll throw it up on Portman's Pinball also as to what we're doing that day. Go to, again, nachostreet.org. We have YouTube. We have Facebook. Just look up Nacho Street Band, and we will be there. And remember, Tribe members number 11 through 20, We will match your donations up to $10 for each tribe member. So that would be up to a $100 match, which would be a total of $300. And if you really want your money, just go to Project Pinball. We'll gladly donate that $10, but I'll be doing that in, I'll give you guys about a week or so to kind of get back to us. One week. One week. Seven days from the drop of this episode to episode 49. How's that? So get your stuff together, Tribe members. We love you. Send us a message. Get it together. Thank you so much, guys. I appreciate it. No problem. Thanks for coming on, man. Well, thank you, everybody, for listening to this week's terrible episode. And, Drew, thank you so much for keeping it together. And, you know, he talked about Jurassic Park, and he didn't shed one single tear, which was impressive. I'm proud of you, brother. I'm holding it in until I get home. You are. I look at it, and I just cry. Yeah, you are. And Drew had pants on today, which is great. I know. This is the first time. It's all coming together. You guys are wearing pants? Just for you, Pete. I assume Pete didn't have pants on this time. I am bareback in my coat right now. He's like, I was misinformed about where I was. Anyway, thank you everybody for listening. Tune in next week where we talk about episode 49. Tune in next week when... Email us, poormanspinball at gmail.com. Like us on Facebook, Poor Man Spinball Podcast page. Thanks, guys. And buy our kit at silverballswag.com. Promoter tab, Poor Man Spinball Podcast. Oh, did you see? Franchi was giving me a shot at that. What happened? Franchi posted a coffee mug, just like, hey, it's my morning or whatever. I want to see your mugs or something. Yeah. So, like, you know, somebody new just said, hey, good morning, Chris. You know, here's my mug. And then I had the Franchi mug. Yeah. And I said, oh, my Franchi mug. You know, good morning. and that was it. I just said, oh, a Franchi mug. And he goes, didn't I teach you anything? How to shill your stuff or something? So I was like, and you can get this and all kinds of poor man's pinball podcast swag at silverballswag.com. And then the link's on there. And he goes, there you go. There, I got you. And bring your 20s, because we're going to have some stuff for sale at the Silverball Swag booth at TPF, if it's even there. No, it'll be there. So, yeah, buy our stuff there at TPF. And if we don't sell out, we'll have all these extra shirts to give you at a discount for Pinberg. Oh, there you go. Let me know, brother. We will hook you up to support and represent the Four Man's Pinball Podcast. So thank you, everyone, for listening. That's enough Win Schilling for one day. Thanks, guys. I'm so tired. Pete, thank you again, sir. Thank you. Thanks, Pete. Woo! All right. And done. you